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2010-10-30

Vatic Note: The bigger question is, does Child services need anyones permission to experiment medically on these children. After reading the previous blogs about genetically altering our humanity to become something not human, it struck me that these kids are more vulnerable to this than anyone else since they have no one there to protect them. This is obscene.

Swearing a loyalty oath to Israel as an ethnic state is gaining legitimacy; a video produced by the authors shows the willingness of Israeli residents to pledge allegiance. (VN: I believe these were American dual Israeli citizens who want to eventually migrate to Israel and thus the willingness to take the oath while still Americans, voting in American elections sending our wealth and children to die for Israel, is that right? No, if they are who they said they were, its treason)

September 16, 2010

The Israeli Knesset is debating a bill proposed by David Rotem of the extreme right Yisrael Beiteinu party that would require all Israeli citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state." This bill is targeted at increasing pressure on the 20 percent of Israelis who are Palestinian citizens, while forcing the ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority who reject the legitimacy of any state not based on Jewish biblical law to accept Zionism. If passed in its proposed form, citizens unwilling to take the loyalty oath would be at risk of losing citizenship.

Vatic Note: Tyranny visits America, Israeli style. This reminded me so much of the Israeli dictatorship over the private lives of the pals that I almost began to believe they had fully taken over our entire country with the way our own people were acting. Look at our housing, a form of destruction even though different has the same end result, people in the streets and homeless. Same with this food raid is like Israeli destroying the crops and olive trees of the pals so they have a food shortage and starvation and ill health. These raids against coops are like that as well. Our health is at risk with the poisons they feed us through the regular food system and so they attack our coops of healthy food products so we get ill. Same effect, just a more humane legal looking way to do it. This is almost over one way or the other. I have no doubt. Pictures are up all over this blog of who the perps are that need to be gone, like Iceland, so travel around and check them out.

On June 30, 2010, a group of armed government agents from local, state, federal and even the Canadian government illegally trespassed on private property and raided Rawesome Foods, a private food buying club in Venice, California. With guns drawn, these agents tore through the property stealing computers, raw dairy products and honey, all while holding some of the volunteer workers hostage for several hours. When the agents finally left, they took with them thousands of dollars in private property as well as the surveillance footage of their armed rampage.

Sounds like a scene out of a horror movie, right? Except this actually happened, though unless you’re tuned in to the health freedom movement, you’ve probably heard nothing about it. Most of the mainstream media outlets would never touch a story like this because it exposes just how tyrannical and out of control our government has become on issues like raw milk and food freedom.

[Editor's note: The reason we took so long to publish this story is because we were waiting on some promised video footage of the raid -- footage that never materialized. It is not yet clear whether this footage was confiscated by police or simply lost, but there is reportedly additional footage of this raid that nobody has seen yet. I regret that we have so far been unable to obtain it for you.]

Vatic Note: This is going on world wide. Its bigger than we can imagine, and seriously dangerous to our entire species. If they succeed in genetically manipulating us into oblivion, the human race will be no more, and history books will be purged of our existance. Genocide, and end of a species if the result, if this gets out of control. Remember in Israel Healthy sperm count is down 40% in less than 10 years at the time of the study. Remember also, Bill Gateshas admitted on tape that Vaccines are what they intend to use to continue this sterilization process. Remember also the US has refused to clean up DUpoisoning in Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq and elsewhere which has had an impact on sperm count, deformed babies, and ultimately death as we saw from the report yesterday that more soldiers die from suicide than killed in all three wars. Then we saw theaffectsof the DU poisoning, on a blog we did . Then we have the gulf with outrageous quantities of corexitbeing used which is a killer chemical. This is a serious subject that needs study about exactly what is going on and who is doing it. I think we already know once you read this and realize eastern Europe has now fully fallen under the control of the Rothschild nazi fascist empire and that is where the worst of this is happening outside of Israel which is Rothschild's kingdom according to the Israeli's. He is their king.

What this is is an undeclared war against the worlds population and its now fully in play given all the above and the timing and coordination. Add to that theattack on our DNA, on synthetic DNA, on cloning, and we have massive works in progress on Eugenics funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Think about the FDA's role as well, that approved a drug that was banned in 160 countries, why? Why would the FDA do that? Its more than just profits. This is so whatever population is left, will be cattle as promised by the Protocols,see Protocol, 3a. It appears the Protocols are becoming even more important as things begin to unfold and become exposed to the light of day. In the end remember Goldman Sachs is the operational arm of the Rothschild international banking empire. So we know who the enemy is now. Its certainly not the disorganized muslims, now is it???

(San Francisco) Hungary’s been abused for centuries and survived. Never before have the abusers gone after the most defenseless – the unborn and babies with hammer and tongs.

Hungary is a failed state, pushed to extinction; the men’s sperm killed off and the women’s germ cells fried as the next generation, as yet unborn, is killed in the womb. They never even had a chance.

Hungary and toxic red mud

Radiologically exterminated by pitiful, cowardly “war fighters” like the American President George Bush and their own Hungarian crony capitalists/politicians – Sonderkommandos all.

These cowardly creatures would push their own families into Nazi ovens for a “shower” with the rat poison Zyklon B, and smile at the Nazi executioners all the time. Their pay, however, is extinction; Sonders never learn.

Dying Hungary’s Latest Disaster.

A little after noon on Oct 4, 2010, 810 acre feet or 35.3 Million Gallons of toxic red sludge from decades of refining bauxite into aluminum at the Hungarian Aluminum Co flooded with a 6 ft wall of poisonous red mud the nearby towns of Kolontár, Devecser and Somlóvásárhely along the Torna creek.

More Pictures of the Environmental Disaster in Hungary from Reader Ken A’s Comment below.

While America frets the slick onslaught of GM (genetically modified) crops, the rest of world is taking action even at the risk of defying authorities and facing prison. To countries like France, Spain, and India, no means no! The people of these nations have found little recourse with their leaders when they oppose the installation of Monsanto crops. They fear the danger of the sickly GM plants (and the absurd chemicals and pesticides they require) to their environment, health, and the survival of their organic or even non-organic fields. Some groups have battled this corruption through field destruction, anti-Monsanto campaigns, protests, and even openly rejecting Daddy Monsanto’s “gift” of franken-food during times of crisis.

Americans, repeat after Europe – Don’t mess with our food!

Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational corporations and corrupt public policy makers, citizens act to protect the food supply and the planet.

The French vineyard is the same field attacked last year when the plants were only cut. But the security features installed after that incident kept authorities at bay while the group accomplished its mission yesterday.

Speaking for the group, Olivier Florent told Le Figero that they condemned the use of public funds for open-field testing of GMOs “that we do not want.”

Pitching tents in the rain near France’s National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) site in Colmar the night before, the group waited until 5 AM before converging on the site and locking the gates behind them. They uprooted all 70 plants, then submitted to arrest.

This is the second attack on GMO crops to make international news this year. In July dozens of people destroyed two experimental corn crops in Spain. In an anonymous press release, they wrote, “This kind of direct action is the best way to respond to the fait accompli policy through which the Generalitat, the State and the biotech multinationals have been unilaterally imposing genetically modified organisms.”

In the late 1990s, Indian farmers burnt Bt cotton fields in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Monsanto did not disclose to farmers that the GM seeds were experimental. “Despite the heavy use of chemical fertiliser, traces of which still can be observed in the field, the Bt plants grew miserably, less than half the size of the traditional cotton plants in the adjacent fields.”

In the US, GMOs were secretly foisted on the public in the mid-1990s, and only now is the US Supreme Court addressing the scourge. In June, the high court upheld partial deregulation of GM alfalfa, which permits limited planting while the USDA prepares an Environmental Impact Statement. Natural and organic alfalfa supply is threatened by the very real potential of GM contamination. This would destroy the organic meat and dairy industry.

Last Friday, a federal court took a tougher position on GM sugar beets. Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked USDA approval of the GM beet, while allowing for its planting this year only.

Also this month, a British farmer exposed that milk and meat from cloned animals had secretly entered the food supply.

Public opposition to GM crops has grown in recent years as more evidence surfaces that DNA-altered crops:

■Require massive chemical inputs which destroy local biodiversity and poison the water tables;

■Cross-pollinate with natural and weedy crops;

■Create superweeds; and

■Have been shown to cause organ damage, sterility, and diabetes and obesity in mammals.

Meanwhile, President Obama has stacked his Administration with biotech insiders going so far as to appoint Islam Siddiqui as Agriculture Trade Negotiator. Siddiqui is a former pesticide lobbyist and vice president of CropLife America, a biotech and pesticide trade group that lobbies to weaken environmental laws.

The US is pushing hard at the world to accept GM foods. Recently, the American Farm Bureau Federation called for stronger sanctions against the European Union for its GM crop ban.

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Vatic Note: This is truly another MUST read. Ironically, the issue of the shorts on key airlines and reinsurance companies, just prior to 9-11, is critical as its completely out of the ordinary as this article will highlight, than add this to Jeb Bush's signed executive order on "9/7" as gov of florida and dated to take affect on 9-11.... so how did he know? These two items alone are more than enough to indict a normal person for this mass murder, yes, thats what this is, mass murder for profit and power. The entire stock trading issue never really took hold and yet it was the most clearly solid piece of evidence showing a serious RICO conspiracy added to murder & would have fully served justice to prosecute whoever was benefiting from the knowledge and involvement in the incident. Rumor was the trades came from the CIA offices in Europe. Remember the CIA does not work for our government, rather the British tavistock or some affiliate thereof.

This is the best write up on this issue that I have ever seen since 9-11 and I have seen a lot. Enjoy the incredible evidence of violations of law by our own justice and intel depts. Amazing. I just hope I don't learn that happened under Obama as well. My last question, Did anyone from the CIA go to prison for destroying 3,000 pages of evidence???? I still don't know for sure if this turned into another Libby situation or if someone actually is serving time for doing this. I believe if they had cornered who ever carried out the orders, we might have gotten them to whistle blow and finally put this puppy to bed. If Obama wants to save his political power he better start indictments of those we all know were involved at the higher levels of both industry and government. That will go a long way in healing this nation and ridding us of the foreign occupiers who actually did it in concert with our nations traitors.

Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market. An extraordinary number of trades were betting that American Airlines stock price would fall.

Vatic Note: You have to read this as its a BRUTALLY HONEST TREATMENT OF S510. Its got hidden agenda's all through it just like the health care bill that Nancy would not let anyone read until after they voted for it. You won't believe the potential criminalization of water, manuere, and seed storage along with other things. Its like micromanaging farming that would be so costly no one could afford to farm much less eat. Also this bill benefits the agricorps and there is another trade agreement which would put our farming issues under the WTO. Another facet of globalizing. Please read and understand why we have to oppose this bill VIGOROUSLY...... AND RIGHT AWAY TOO. This is important to us since we are next to sign a similar deal.

Under provisions in CETA [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement], using saved seed could result in a farmer's land, equipment, and crops being seized for alleged infringement of intellectual property rights attached to plant varieties owned by corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer.

"It includes the freezing of bank accounts too, so you couldn't even defend yourself in court. And this is for alleged infringement," says NFU [National Farmers Union] president Terry Boehm. ...

"These are the most draconian measures possible and they would literally create a culture of fear in the farm population where, I think, that ultimately farmers would end up buying seeds every year for every acre just to avoid prosecution or the threat of prosecution."

2010-10-28

Vatic Note: Oh, you really have to read this. Its obscene. GMO products are way worse than we had thought. The company needs to be shut done, you can not do what they have done and not know what you are doing. Even if its pure ignorance, then they should be shut down anyway and never allowed near another seed as long as they live. Read below that this does to us on updated research and they not only knew about the problems, they fought in court for years keeping that information from going public. So it is intentional and criminal as a result. As much as we have put up about GMO on the blog, I still did not know most of what is written here and its way worse than we had imagined. At least that is the case for me.

This is scary stuff they are doing with synthetic DNA now.... evil science fiction and truly satanic. NO SOUL. Remember our Jesse Ventura series on Plum Island and their experiments where they found genetically modified dead creatures out there washed up on shore? including a human? Then we did the blog on the nano spiders that can go in and splice your DNA? Why? Then we did the special on the "Junk DNA" and found out it was not junk, but could be the seat of the soul and our spirituality since it had a full blown language? To talk to whom? Are we connecting the pieces to the puzzle yet?

After just watching the videos on the "Secret Powers of the Mind"..... I now understand what and why they are doing this. They know full well, what we are capable of if we ever wake up to it and the object is to keep us from doing just that. These foods they are manufacturing synthetically are going to negatively affect our DNA and thereby affect our Consciousness and that was clear in the videos on the 25th that the power of those three levels of consciousness is indescribable and a serious threat to the satanists. Please read and know that GMO products AND genome manipulation must be fought tooth and nail to preserve our DNA, consciousness, and our soul along with our general health as well. What we are looking at here is Bill Gates' Eugenics and depopulation that he is always promoting.

Synthetic biologists forecast that as computer code is written to create software to augment human capabilities, so too genetic code will be written to create life forms to augment civilization. —Jerome C. Glenn

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. —Edward Osborne Wilson

Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated! —the Borg

Not long ago, a writer for Wired magazine named Elizabeth Svoboda contacted me (Tom) to let me know she was writing an article about “research advances using transgenic animals to produce

pharmaceutical compounds.” She had come across an editorial by me raising caution about this kind of experimentation and wondered if I might be willing to provide points for her article, elaborating in areas where I saw producing transgenic human-animals as potentially harmful. She stated that most of the scientists she planned to quote were “pretty gung-ho about the practice,” and said she thought it would be important to provide some balance. I thanked her for the invitation and sent a short summary of some, though not all, of the areas where concerns about this science could be raised.

When the article was finally published by Wired, I was surprised that none of my notes had made it into the story. I contacted Elizabeth and asked why, and she replied that they had originally been included in her article, “Pharm Animals Crank Out Drugs,” but in order to create a positive spin on the story, the editors had censored my cautionary notes during the editing process. Elizabeth apologized and said she hoped the experience had not soured me on dealing with the magazine.

Vatic Note: What a courageous and high integrity thing to do. It takes a lot of courage to come back from one radical position to say you were wrong and then to make amends for the wrongs done and that is what this former congressman did. It was through his deep spiritual search for the real meaning of Christianity (long forgotten by most) and the teachings of The Savior, that brought him back to the full and true intent of that faith. We simply do not have men like this in congress anymore and you can tell by the state of the nation. Please read and see what I mean.

Former Congressman Mark Siljander, Quest to bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide

First hour: Mark Siljander, former Conservative Christian congressman (R-MI) and author of A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide. Congressman Mark Siljander once despised Islam so much he walked out of a White House prayer breakfast because the prayer was being led by a Muslim! Later, after deeper study of Christianity as well as Islam, he realized how much these two religions have in common, and became a bridge-builder between the faiths and a sort of unofficial (but extremely well-connected) U.S. envoy to various hot spots in the Islamic world.

Among other diplomatic miracles, his intervention apparently helped convince Libya to give up its (innocent) Lockerbie suspects and later its nuclear weapons program. The secret? Siljander spoke from the heart and told the Libyans how sorry he was that the US had murdered Col. Qaddafi's baby daughter. (Just think what those magic words "I'm sorry" could accomplish in the case of, say, Israel apologizing to the Palestinians, or the US apologizing to Muslims for the false-flag 9/11 inside job and the War on Islam it launched.)

In 2008, Siljander was indicted on transparently bogus "support for terrorism" charges. It was alleged was that a group he had worked for had also paid money to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leading beneficiary of US support in the anti-Soviet Afghan liberation war. Despite Hekmatyar's career as an American ally, he was suddenly redefined as a terrorist, allowing Zionist US Attorney Bradley Schlozman, an unconfirmed Bush appointee in the Justice Department dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, to launch his bizarre prosecution of Siljander (who was innocent of the Hekmatyar connection, and is deeply opposed to all forms of terrorism).

Why was Siljander set up for politically-motivated prosecution? According to my well-connected sources, the crucifixion of Mark Siljander was a message - a sort of horse's head in the bed - from the Zionist forces behind the 9/11 coup d'état. The message was simple: Get in the way of our War on Islam and you're toast. (For a relatively fair account, check out the Wikipedia entry on Siljander.)

Siljander's book A Deadly Misunderstanding does indeed represent a major obstacle to the War on Islam. I have an Islamic Studies related Ph.D. and have taught introduction to Islam courses at UW-Madison and Edgewood college, and mini-courses at several Wisconsin churches; and never have I seen an approach to real interfaith dialogue as promising as that of Mark Siljander - a true follower of Jesus. Anyone who wants to end the current Wars of Religion (i.e. the 9/11-instigated War on Islam) needs to hear Mark Siljander's amazing message.

Second hour: Tim Cox of GOOOH (Get Out of Our House: A Nonpartisan Plan to Evict the Career Politicians from the U.S. House of Representatives). Tim Cox's plan to radically transform American political culture by evicting the entire House of Representatives has a lot going for it: Simplicity, nonpartisanship, and a feasible organizational strategy. If it works - and it just might, given the ever-growing disillusionment with politics-as-usual - Cox will go down in history as a top-tier American hero. Can he pull it off? Listen to the interview and, if you like what you hear, consider joining GOOOH and working for the (nonviolent) Second American Revolution.

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Vatic Note: Remember in our report on the DU poisoned soldiers returning home, we found they had a higher rate of suicide than those not so poisoned, who may have been stationed away from the original battle field where the ammo was used such as artillary shells. That blog showed exactly in detail what the DU does to the human brain,here & here , not including what it does in the way of birth defects for the residents remaining behind who did not seek refugee status. We also showed how the VA is resisting treating these men saying tests show its not poisonous which is ridiculous, and thus like PTSD treats it like its all in your head. Well, it is, that first link shows how it gets into their heads and the violation of the brain barrier it causes and thus affects the brain to a major extent. Brain and heart are the longest to heal even if the assault on the organ is removed, and that is the crime. These bankers have so many crimes to account for that they can't live long enough to do so. I consider every single soldiers death by DU induced suicide as a death sentence intentional murder penalty and that is the sentence that should be carried out once justice becomes real again in our system. If they are not afraid of us, they should be. We are so angry right now, that is sufficient threat for them to worry. Its their turn, "he who fears last, fears best". All these men are under age 35. Just like Viet Nam, another massive extinction of a whole generation of our children. Damn them for doing this.

Veteran Suicides Outnumber US Military Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan: REPORT

More than 1,000 veterans in California under 35 died after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 - three times as many California service members who were killed in conflict overseas, according to a recently published Bay Citizen report.

Investigative journalist Aaron Glantz studied the cases of Reuben Paul Santos, Alex Lowenstein and Elijah Warren to shed light on a growing trend among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans who have died through high-risk behavior and suicide after being discharged. In particular, veterans who returned home to California died through motorcycle and motor vehicle accidents and unintentional poisoning; in addition, veterans were two and a half times as likely to commit suicide as Californians of the same age who had not served in the military.

Are songs the powerful soul language of Americans? Yes, they are!!!
They tell us where we are, and where we intend to go.
by Vatic Master

Update: I waited for a shift change and got the videos working again. So enjoy while they are still up.

I have just found these three songs and was touched by them. They are reminescent of the 60's and 70's protest songs, but more powerful I think. Remember, both singing and painting or visual arts is a direct communication between the spirit and the three dimensional world without the interference of the mental field.

This is where intentions are created and grow to massive levels if we feed them, thus altering our reality as we see daily. The powers that be are becoming more and more afraid and making more and more mistakes. Lets keep that going. Learn these songs to go with all of your intentions about our world and its future.

I don't believe, in my lifetime, I have ever seen the nation begin to stir with the power within them that I have seen and felt this time around. Remember, we are POWERFUL and if you have forgotten that, please revisit "The secret power of the mind"here and here, on our blog and the power of "water" as well since its mentioned in the first one. Remember all of these were scientifically proven just how powerful we can be if we choose to be so.

Enjoy these and they are going up on the blog as soon as they run their course. As you can see off to the right, I believe in music and its power as do the evil ones since they have killed off so many of our great protest artists like John Lennon. So there must be something to this. Lets make it work for us. Pass these along.

2010-10-27

Vatic Note: What we have here is a MSM publication owned primarily by the bankers exposing the underbelly of the beast. Why? Is this why the big fight internally at the White House? Is Wall Street trying to get another bail out to complete the final demise of our economy and consolidation of control of our banking system into a few wall street brokerage hands, just before their third world war SO WE ARE ASSURED OF LOSING THAT WAR???

Is this a prelude to consolidating total control of the banking industry under a few International brokerage houses controlled by Rothschild and the BIS of Switzerland which is the Rothschild's bankers bank, using this information to justify another massive take over and control by the fascists and managed by the head fascist shown in the pic below??? You read it and decide. I am so cynical right now, that nothing that comes out in the MSM is about serving as a forth column for the people, so a more objective eye will have to view this information and decide what is the truth.... that elusive quality that is hard to find in this nation anymore. (just check out that smirk on his ugly puss, no wonder he has to pay $40,000 PER NIGHT of our bail out money FOR prostitutes to get anything, sorry, just can't contain my disdain for these perverts).

The federal government's pressure on lenders Wednesday to fix the paperwork problems plaguing foreclosures left unaddressed a far greater potential threat facing the financial system and the U.S. economy.

Beyond sloppy documents, the foreclosure debacle has exposed one of Wall Street's little-known practices: For more than a decade, big lenders sold millions of mortgages around the globe at lightning speed without properly transferring the physical documents that prove who legally owned the loans.

Now, some of the pension systems, hedge funds and other investors that took big losses on the loans are seeking to use this flaw to force banks to compensate them or even invalidate the mortgage trades themselves.

Their collective actions, if successful, could blow a hole through the balance sheets of big banks and raise fundamental questions about the financial system, financial analysts and a lawmaker said.

If judges rule in favor of such lawsuits, "it could be 2008 all over again," said Josh Rosner, managing director at Graham Fisher & Co., referring to the Wall Street meltdown that occurred after Lehman Brothers collapsed. (VN: he took the words right out of my mouth, another borderline illegal unethical practice of the bankers where justice is not a jail cell, rather a bailout. Wish I could do that with any illegal, or unethical thing I felt like doing just like the DERIVATIVES, They BETTER NOT DO ANOTHER BAILOUT, rather see them all go down, saves us having to do it when we take back control of our currency &credit)

Financial and legal analysts are divided over how the ownership questions will be resolved and the scope of the potential damage. Lenders and investigators are in the midst of a painstaking process of unraveling the complex chain of loans that were sold from one party to another, a process that some analysts say could take years.

Of the nearly $11 trillion in mortgages in the United States, about two-thirds was turned into securities that were traded around the globe.

After a home buyer gets a mortgage, the lender typically pools that loan with hundreds of others to create a security that can be traded like a stock. This process is commonly called securitization and has been the preferred method of financing debt in America for more than a decade.

Wall Street firms would set up partnerships called "trusts" and would raise money from pension funds, university endowments, hedge funds and other investors to buy these mortgage securities. The investors would then share the cash flow from the payments made by homeowners every month.

However, local laws in most states dictate that each time a mortgage changes hands, the transaction needs to be recorded in courts or county offices. But the speed with which the loans were being generated during the housing boom and then pooled together and passed around Wall Street meant that big financial firms took shortcuts, consumer lawyers said.

Often the proper paperwork got lost or was passed along without being filled out, lawyers say. Some documents have been found retroactively signed or even forged.

"It now appears that in many cases: 1. the paperwork was not properly transferred and 2. it is unclear in many cases where the actual paperwork actually rests today," Citigroup Global Markets analyst Josh Levin wrote in a note to investors this week.

Some analysts doubt whether the consequences will be dire.

"Does it call into question all securities? I think that's flying way, way too far," said Laurie Goodman, a securities analyst at Amherst Mortgage Insight. Goodman said there should be an easy way to go back and transfer documents correctly, which she says some firms are already doing.

Yet officials at the ratings agency Moody's say they are watching the courts very closely.

If they rule that the securitization process muddied the ownership of the loans, "then basically the whole thing winds down," said Debash Chatterjee, senior vice president at Moody's.

Adam Levitin, an associate professor of law at Georgetown University, who briefed Citigroup's clients on a conference call this week, said in an interview that it's hard to predict the scope of the problem.

"If you read through court decisions, there's a pretty consistent picture that there are all kinds of problems in the chain of title," Levitin said. "It's not clear how it's going to be resolved. There's a question mark hanging over the whole housing system."

Big lenders have said the issues could be solved in a month or so, but Levitin questioned that, saying that any resolution could take at least a year. In the worst-case scenario, this becomes a "systemic problem" and the mortgage market grinds to a halt.

"The liability here for the major banks is potentially enormous, and can lead to systemic risk," wrote Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) in a letter last week to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and other senior regulators.

A number of investors, who are already suing trusts for losses related to mortgage securities, are seeking to expand their lawsuits or file new ones focused on whether the trusts actually owned the loans, according to lawyers involved in the discussions.

Lawyers said the investors could try to force the banks to buy back the assets if contracts were violated.

"If we can't come up with a system for investors to enforce their contract rights here, then there shouldn't be a securitization market," said Bill Frey, chief executive of the hedge fund Greenwich Financial Services. "It's just as simple as that.

"Ultimately, the resolution of this is in the hands of the investors, and they have to have the political and economic will to stand up," he added.

That might already be happening. The Association of Mortgage Investors is pressuring trustees to investigate the transfer of loans in the securitization process. The trade organization has said big lenders should be liable for losses due to their negligence.

A key case before the supreme court of Massachusetts should shed more light on whether the trusts have valid ownership of the loans. A lower-court judge ruled that Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank did not have the right to foreclose on two properties because of errors in the securitization process, a decision the banks dispute.

A search of court records by an attorney for homeowners in Florida turned up nearly 80 cases in which a trust initiated foreclosure proceedings before it registered its ownership of the mortgage with county offices. Citibank, for instance, started foreclosure proceedings on a home in May 2008 but recorded the trust's ownership of the mortgage in March 2009.

Ann Rutledge, chief strategist of the structured finance advisory firm R&R Consulting, said not much more could go wrong in the mortgage-backed securities market.

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Vatic Note: In order to give a balanced view of the Muslims and their faith, we have decided working toward peace requires true understanding to replace "HATE AND FEAR" propoganda as purged out in volumes by the Zionist owned press. So this piece was perfect for doing just that. I was surprised at what I read and its verifiable. Please take time to do the reading and remember it everytime some filth is put out about Muslims, please remember this writing. Also remember who killed 60 milion Christians when they took over Russia. All Obama has to do to begin serious negotiations with them is pull out the contract that is so old. Not that they are the threat except when we aggress against them. That is why if Israel attacks Iran then we must follow the same intent as Mohammad did when he saved the lives of all those Christians who were under attack and it does not say by who. That will have to remain for speculation.

By Muqtedar Khan
Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware

Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 percent of the world. If they lived in peace, we would be half way to world peace. One small step we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization.

In this article I propose to remind both Muslims and Christians about a promise that Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) made to Christians. The knowledge of this promise can have enormous impact on Muslim conduct towards Christians. Muslims generally respect the precedent of their Prophet and try to practice it in their lives.

In 628 AD, a delegation from St. Catherine's Monastery came to Prophet Muhammed and requested his protection. He responded by granting them a charter of rights, which I reproduce below in its entirety. St. Catherine's Monastery is located at the foot of Mt. Sinai and is the world's oldest monastery. It possess a huge collection of Christian manuscripts, second only to the Vatican, and is a world heritage site. It also boasts the oldest collection of Christian icons. It is a treasure house of Christian history that has remained safe for 1,400 years under Muslim protection.

The Promise to St. Catherine:

"This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them.

No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate.

No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world)."

The first and the final sentence of the charter are critical. They make the promise eternal and universal. Muhammed asserts that Muslims are with Christians near and far, straight away rejecting any future attempts to limit the promise to St. Catherine alone. By ordering Muslims to obey it until the Day of Judgment the charter again undermines any future attempts to revoke the privileges. These rights are inalienable. Muhammed declared Christians, all of them, as his allies and he equated ill treatment of Christians with violating God's covenant.

A remarkable aspect of the charter is that it imposes no conditions on Christians for enjoying its privileges. It is enough that they are Christians. They are not required to alter their beliefs, they do not have to make any payments and they do not have any obligations. This is a charter of rights without any duties!

The document is not a modern human rights treaty, but even though it was penned in 628 A.D. it clearly protects the right to property, freedom of religion, freedom of work, and security of the person.

I know most readers, must be thinking, So what? Well the answer is simple. Those who seek to foster discord among Muslims and Christians focus on issues that divide and emphasize areas of conflict. But when resources such as Muhammad's promise to Christians is invoked and highlighted it builds bridges. It inspires Muslims to rise above communal intolerance and engenders good will in Christians who might be nursing fear of Islam or Muslims.

When I look at Islamic sources, I find in them unprecedented examples of religious tolerance and inclusiveness. They make me want to become a better person. I think the capacity to seek good and do good inheres in all of us. When we subdue this predisposition towards the good, we deny our fundamental humanity. In this holiday season, I hope all of us can find time to look for something positive and worthy of appreciation in the values, cultures and histories of other peoples.

Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware and a fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
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St Catherines monestary has this to say about the Holy Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him)'s letter:

According to the tradition preserved at Sinai, Mohammed (AS) both knew and visited the monastery and the Sinai fathers. The Koran makes mention of the Sinai holy sites. In the second year of the Hegira, corresponding to AD 626, a delegation from Sinai requested a letter of protection from Mohammed (S).

This was granted, and authorized by him when he placed his hand upon the document. In AD 1517, Sultan Selim I confirmed the monasterys prerogatives, but took the original letter of protection for safekeeping to the royal treasury in Constantinople. At the same time, he gave the monastery certified copies of this document, each depicting the hand print of Mohammed (S) in token of his having touched the original.

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Greek Halki School of Theology, the only Greek Orthodox seminary in Turkey.

Yes, and it is authentic. Ustadh Muhammad Hamidullah, rahimahullah, published it and others before him - orientalists - published it.

But the manuscript they rely on is not the original handwritten by the Sahaba, rather a copy of it. The Ottoman Sultan replaced it with copies. What's true is that the original is lost - or somewhere in Istanbul's famous libraries of muslim manuscripts - and what exists are copies.

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Vatic Note:(Speaking of Satanism.... now we know why the torture and suffering and the little children they sexually assaulted as well) Wolfowitz again. One of the zionist neocons that created the New American Century think tank, took the other neocon zionists, Zbig's suggestion that they create a 9-11 type event and blow something up to scare people into meeting their agenda and it worked.

He was also head of the scamming world bank that went into Iraq after so called "hostilities were over, replaced their gold backed currency with fiat worthless currency, stole 19.5 billion of Iraq's gold, began the debt game with the nation, then taxed the iraqi people a flat tax to pay it back with interest, and began the westernization of their economic system so they could steal wealth from them over the next century like they have with us. The psychologists and other scientists that acted against their fiduciary responsibility as "HEALERS" should lose their license and never be allowed to practice or make a living as such ever again.

You can tell I do not like Wolfowitz who combs his hair with 'spit'. Remember that face below since they aplan on doing a nuke or bioweapon on American citizens and when they do its going to be important to have these photos so we know who to look for as America's number 1 enemy on this planet and go after only them. This act he did on the experimentation program does not suprise me, those international bankers are the most psychopathic group of people I have ever encountered and that is another reason they have to go as soon as possible.

In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to torture and other brutal techniques for interrogating "war on terror" detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners.

Wolfowitz issued a little-known directive on March 25, 2002, about a month after President George W. Bush stripped the detainees of traditional prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions. Bush labeled them "unlawful enemy combatants" and authorized the CIA and the Department of Defense (DoD) to undertake brutal interrogations.

Despite its title - "Protection of Human Subjects and Adherence to Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported Research" - the Wolfowitz directive weakened protections that had been in place for decades by limiting the safeguards to "prisoners of war."

Vatic Note: We found this old article written by a scholar in these studies and decided to use it to teach us about the history of the old testament god's that were rivals of the Israelites one true God, that we are discovering are still around today at such places as the Bohemian grove in California and one in Germany that are still active with high official leaders of various countries attending and worshipping and offering sacrifices that are in effigy, but given that practice we can understand why our nation is in the condition its in.

Essentially these gods have evolved over time to what is now pretty much sabbatean religion or satanism as well as luciferian religion. We have covered those many times so far and this was much more scholarly presented and thus much more accurate. Give it a read and remember all the other articles we have put up about the british leaders as well as our own who attend these ritualistic gatherings once a year for many years now. Bohemian grove has been doing this molech worshipping since the early 1900's. Also remember our article written by a higher up official of satanism, that they are coming out of the closet and about ready to make their presence fully known. The article was titled "The Age of Satan". This practice is prevalent at the highest levels of our government and corporations with respect to our current global situation and as you know we have covered that extensively, this age of satan was new where before they denied it or refused to address it. Its out in the open now.

That the Hebrew God is the best known of all gods worshiped in the world today needs no explanation. The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims, among others, all accord the ancient Hebrew God their devotion. Whatever else those three faiths might say, they would agree with Psalm 95:3, that "The Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods."

But God is not and has not been without his rivals, even in antiquity. Even in the pages of the Hebrew Bible, there were many alternatives to the Lord God of Israel, and in this article we will consider three of the now largely forgotten deities who once opposed Him, who alone is most great.

Perhaps the best known ancient rival to the Hebrew God was the pagan Baal, a term which means "master" or "lord", and is probably originally a general term for a variety of local deities in the area in and near the holy land. An example of a local baal cult is called "Baal-peor" mentioned in Numbers 25:3, where the Israelites disgraced themselves in some sexual rites with the Moabites and worshiped the local god, incurring the wrath and punishment of their own God.

VN: If you have read his Majestic 12, you would know about all of this that he discusses on this video.

Remember, he was top security clearance for the CIA and was murdered right after 9-11 when he exposed the entire episode as a false flag and tied all this together. This video is really from his radio show and is an audio for laying the background and foundation for subsequent seminars that he gave on this subject. He had access to documents that confirmed the existance of aliens, but also the plan to use "pretend" aliens to bring the globe together in a one world order to fight them, and it will all be a ruse.

Vatic Note: Well, finally, a Wall Street MSM is speaking out about the reality of Wall Street, the shanky bankers and internationalist crime syndicates, and for some reason when they do it, it makes it real to some people. Even though we have all seen the same thing going on year after year since 9-11 if not before and this is what we end up with a whole 10 years and trillions of dollars of our wealth later, along with the blood of thousands of our children. Too damn little, just too damn late. It would have been nice had Marketwatch said something back in 2003. But heck, we should be grateful for what we get. Enjoy the read, its actually pretty good about the details of the crimes committed and lack of justice meted out.

MarketWatch:The nation tires of Wall Street 'justice': ALL CRIMES AND NO PUNISHMENT, RATHER PROMOTIONS/PAY RAISES FOR BANKSTERS AND ALLIED CONGRESS CRITTERS

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - If you want to take the pulse of how many Americans
feel about justice meted out to Wall Street, take a look at the more than
200 comments posted to MarketWatch's story on the settlement between
prosecutors and Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide
Financial.

Vatic Note: Gordon Duff has a serious handle on the pulse of this entire big picture with Israel and all their machinations to bring about the Iraq like manipulation to attack Iran. These are the khazars we discussed who are not real Jews. This Al Qaeda guy is a son of an ADL board member out of Orange county, CA (ADL is a front for mossad ) and they keep saying he is al qaeda and its been proven he works for mossad and Israel. So Isisrael planning on doing theirSECOND 9-11 ON AMERICANS, ONLY BIGGER THIS TIME?

Please read and understand this is worse than I even thought and the man (Duff) reporting this is an American veteran and owns the Veterans Today publication that is exposing this to all. He is brave for doing so since most who have exposed this underbelly of the Satanic leaders of Israel have been assassinated either politically or literally. Its time to complete the independant investigation into 9-11 and to throw these people either in jail or out of the country for good. A lifetime ban on them ever crossing our borders and that goes for Abe Foxman of the ADL and Dees of the SPLC. all working in concert to try and get us divided as a nation. Somehow they think we are Afghanistan and this will work on us. They were wrong, they have not succeeded in dumbing us down enough yet.

AL QAEDA SPOKESMAN ADAM GADAHN WORKS FOR THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT, END OF STORY

“Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and, if we investigated closely, have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired, if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is Wikileaks”

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world. The message, we are told, was found on a “secret website” by an Israeli company who put it in a press release.

There is no evidence any American Muslim has ever been on the website referred to, no American intelligence agency could find it, not the CIA or the FBI or Homeland Security. There was only one way the 300,000 Muslims of Detroit could hear call to terrorism, from an Israeli company that passes on such messages for profit.

Does it create them too? You be the judge.

Let’s look at a possible analogy. If you were to capture a vicious rabid dog in the wilderness and turned it loose in a children’s playground, would you be a terrorist? This is essentially what is being admitted to.

What is in question, another analogy, is whether you purposefully infected the dog with rabies in the first place. Either way, you are a terrorist.

Adam Gadahn, the “American Taliban,” the lisping, overweight bungler continually calling for the murder of Americans is really named Adam Perlman from a family highly influential in the Anti-Defamation League. The group distributing his threats, SITE Intelligence, contracted to the American government, is run by a former IDF member whose father was executed in Iraq as a Mossad terrorist. SITE Intelligence is the source of the Osama bin Laden tapes long proven to be, not only the wrong voice, but to resemble bin Laden so little as to have become a joke.

Vatic Note: Finally, it appears there is some serious organized opposition to this monsanto murder machine. This is what happens when you place greed above ethics and your fiduciary responsibility to your craft. Its well deserved and worse should happen to them. If things go well, maybe it will, since the Justice dept is making some noises like they might do something. I say wait til after the election and see what that dept does then. Justice is long overdue in many areas and this is one of them. If you have read all that we have put up here on these poisonings of our food, you would feel the same way as we do. Lets get them. Bet they are run by satanists too. I am impressed that this is as far along as it is and it can work if we all chip in and support it and push it to do even more with our help.

Contributors Note: Dr Mercola just put out this excellent article !
Please forward widely . Give it to everyone who still sprays roundup ! It is criminal !
Object strongly and loudly to this ill practice and let your council know that it is unacceptable !

Monsanto, the giant biotechnology agriculture company that created genetically modified corn, soybeans and herbicides, isn't riding so high this year in the stocks department, as news comes in that its products aren't working like they'd hoped.

According to the New York Times, weeds are becoming immune to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, and its latest genetically modified, 8-gene corn is a flop, producing yields no higher than the company's less expensive corn, which contains only three foreign genes.

"Monsanto has already been forced to sharply cut prices on SmartStax and on its newest soybean seeds, called Roundup Ready 2 Yield, as sales fell below projections," the Times said. "And the Justice Department is investigating Monsanto for possible antitrust violations."

"Until now, Monsanto's main challenge has come from opponents of genetically modified crops, who have slowed their adoption in Europe and some other regions. Now, however, the skeptics also include farmers and investors who were once in Monsanto's camp."

Monsanto was named "company of the year" by Forbes Magazine in December. Last week, television stock market commentator Jim Cramer said it "may be the worst stock of 2010," the Times said.

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Vatic Note: I have to say, this is the very best article/analysis on the entire issue of MSM and their drop in credibility, readership, advertising income, and "forced" downsizing, that I have ever read. This guy has done his homework. I am finding more and more that this publication is one of the best on line internet alternative news sources. Again, like all alternative media, be careful since such publications turn out to be purchased by the international bankers and taken over then begin to pump out their propoganda, but as long as this one is covering these subjects with such depth and research, I will continue to stay with it. I do not like reinventing the wheel.... lol Please see just how far down they have gone and that reflects a change in readership in the millions, not just thousands, but in the millions. So there is hope and we will find out this next election.

The progression of human society relies upon the steady distribution of information. The quality of that information, its accuracy and its honesty, determines the overall health of the cultures we create. When a source of information becomes compromised by unhealthy political ambition, social dogma, or the strangling hands of elitism, it’s like a poison well, spreading plague and pestilence throughout the nation, or even the world. Widely disseminated lies inspire delirium and madness in the masses faster than typhoid fever.

Vatic Note: Here is another interesting presentation about our Planet X arrival. Please read and I highly recommend checking out the other links at the end of this article. Its worth the read and will hopefully aid us in determining whethere we are dealing with truth here or manipulation once again since the Truth does get buried in with the scam by these international bankers and their minions they pay to fool us and use for false flags especially with HAARP. The best thing to do is what we are doing, and that is read everything you can on it from legit sources which is hard to determine, but take it all in keeping in mind the end result, which is that these bankers will use such truths to then serve as a foundation for their next scam such as alien invasions. We are living in difficult times given the complete lack of trust in any of our normal institutions, so we have to be the final arbiter of our beliefs. Its a journey and an open mind is the vehicle for traveling that journey. Good luck.

Spanish scientists argue that a brown dwarf has been discovered near Pluto. The celestial object, which astronomers call "G1.9" is said to be almost twice the size of Jupiter and located just behind the dwarf planet Pluto. Is it possible that the rumors about Nibiru or Planet X are about to come true?

The brown dwarf moves in an elliptical orbit between Pluto and the edge of the solar system called the Oort Cloud. It is estimated that the brown dwarf is about 60 to 66 astronomical units AU from Earth (1 AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun) in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Scientists in Spain claim that the newly discovered object is moving in a very flattened ellipse, extending hundreds of AU out of the most distant known planet, and now is closest to the Sun and the Earth as possible.

It is worth a closer look at the history of this discovery. It's not like that astronomers have never known about the existence of the object. As early as 1984, Dave Green of the University of Cambridge identified G1.9 as a "supernova remnant." Because the object was very small for a supernova remnant, it was thought that it was young - that is was less than 1000 years old.

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is an international organization that was organized to “support the war on terror.” Its founders are some of the great movers and shakers in American and Israeli political circles.

As an amateur historian, I’m obsessed with time lines. The war on terror was declared after September 11, 2001. The FDD was officially launched on September 13, 2001. How were they able to organize eleven heavy hitters and be ready to fulfill its grandiose purpose in less than two days?

To answer that question, it’s necessary to go back four years to the formation of a nominally American organization—a much better-known organization which would later contribute leadership to the FDD. It was founded in 1997, and it was called the Project for the New American Century.

Vatic Note: Always when you wish to change a culture or society (social engineering) you start with the children and brainwash them into getting used to what you want them to accept as adults. By the time they reach that age, those of us with memories of what freedom really is, will be long gone and nothing will be left to counter that effort by the massive machine at work here. Press, schools, law enforcement, military, Universities, and anything that promotes or acknowledges liberty and freedom have all gone by way of the "DODO bird", disappeared into the pond scum of self interest and narcissism. What a shame. I am just glad I am at the end of this great life I was fortunately to have. I hope everyone wakes up before the opportunity to reclaim it disappears. If we allow ourselves to be dragged into a world war by the zionist international british supporting bankers, then that opportunity will disappear forever. Lets hope goodness and light will prevail.

Contributors Note: Its interesting that, according to the school, the biggest benefit to getting these tags is to recover funding for tracking attendance. I guess government money will be the carrot on the stick.

Tracking devices used in school badgesTwo districts are first in the area to use ID tags that raise privacy, security concerns
By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Oct. 11, 2010, 10:00AM, provided to Vatic Project by Ms. Kitty, USA

Radio frequency identification — the same technology used to monitor cattle — is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts.

Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow campus administrators to keep tabs on students' whereabouts on campus. School leaders say the devices improve security and increase attendance rates.

Vatic Note: While this report is accurate, notice it was mostly CFR members promoting our demise. Well, those are the same ones who were the advisors and staff for all politicians since the JFK assassination. They purposely socially engineered us down to this 2nd world status with movement further down into a third world country. The empire building that is going on is for a global elite USING AMERICAN WEALTH AND BLOOD of its citizens to do so but selling the illusion that its an AMERICAN empire they are going for which is "THE" lie. In actuality all first world economies are under attack in order to "globalize" everyone to a third world, slave work force, military jobs level. Its all been intentional, but what they don't understand is the resilience and creativity we have if needed to change it.

If this continues and we, the people, see that these leaders care not one wit for our people but only for their greedy selves, we will pull away and begin among ourselves to rebuild from growing our own food, to starting small businesses, manufacturing locally, out of our garages, starting a clothing manufacturing industry, that I am seeing happening in my town already. People are hiring, bartering and otherwise working with seamstresses locally for their clothes and bartering is becoming more and more an option. THEY CAN ONLY KEEP YOU DOWN SO LONG as we believe their propoganda, but once we start to realize no one is going to do anything for us but ourselves, then it will all change.

If we do not buy internationally, and stay local and regional with all our purchases, we can rebuild at that level and that will grow from there. SCREW THEM. Remember, we can thank 9-11 for that, so NO MORE FALSE FLAGS OR WE GO AFTER THOSE DOING IT and we know who you are. Not a good idea to put massive numbers in the millions of people in a position where they have nothing to lose. Not a good idea at all.

The US has long prided itself on being an exceptional nation, a City Upon Hill and a beacon of democracy and progress the world over. Yet in education, healthcare and finance, the US is falling behind other developed and developing nations.

Last week the US slipped to 49th place in terms of life expectancy, and ranks dead last among developed nations in terms of child well-being. Long dedicated to cultivating an educated, highly skilled workforce, the US is now behind Russia and South Korea in the number of citizens with Bachelor's degrees. So can the empire simply be in the eye of the beholder, or do Americans need to confront the harsh statistics about their lone superpower.

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